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| People or a group of people who believe in the political philosophy of Marxism-Leninism |
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| Inputs through which people and interest groups put pressure on the state for change |
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| The process of developing democratic states |
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| In systems theory, everything lying outside the political system |
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| How events today are communicated to people later on and shape what people do later on |
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| Term used to describe how international economic, social, cultural, and technological forces are affecting events inside individual countries |
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| The policy of colonizing other countries and making empries |
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| The richest countries with advanced economics and liberal states |
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| Support or demand from people to the state |
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| International Political Economy (IPE) |
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| The network of economic activity that transcends national boundaries |
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| Defined by political scientists, primarily a psychological term to describe attachment or identity rather than a geopolitical unit such as a state |
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| Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs) |
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| Countries that have developed a strong industrial base and grown faster than most of the third world |
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| Public policy in systems theory |
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| Basic values and assumptions that people have toward authority, the political system, and other overarching themes in political life |
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| Organization that contests electios or otherwise contends for power |
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| The process through which a community, state, or organization organizes and governs itself |
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| The ablity to make people do what you want them to do when they would not have done originally |
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| The institiutions and practices that endure from government to government, such as the constitutional order in a democracy |
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| All individuals and institutions that make public policy, whether they are in the government or not |
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| One with the capacity and the political will to make and implement effective public policy |
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| In a system analysis, popular input that tends to endorse the current leadership and its policies |
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| A theory which compares and analysis of political culture, life and practices |
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| Proportional Representation |
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| A democractic voting system that gives each party the same percentage of seats that they got in the popular vote |
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| Ways of counting votes and allocating seats in their national legislatures |
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| Electoral system in which only one representative is chosen from each constituency |
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| People are governed by clear and fair rules rather than by arbitrary, personal exercise of power |
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| The characteristics that stable democracies have in which people not only accpet the rules of the political game but the people who lead them |
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| The web of membership in social and political groups that some analysts believe is need to sustain democracy |
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- Basic Freedoms
- The Rule of Law
- Competitive, fair and free elections
- A strong society and civic culture
- Capitalism and Affluence |
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- Individualism; people focused only on their own devices and competition
- "War of all against all"
-Necessity in large and powerful state |
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| An economic theory in which government should have a hands off role in the economic state. French for "allow to do" |
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- Creation of Nation and State by itself
- Role of religion in society and government
- The development of pressures |
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| Right-Wing regimes which often had dictorial leaders, which greatly supressed personal rights and drew on racist philosophies |
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| A key concept stressing the degree to which people accept and endorse their regime |
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Parties that support stronger government role in the lives of the individual:
- Labour
- Liberal Democrats
- (American) Liberals |
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- Extensive Welfare Programs
- Government takeover of private business
- Greater Equality |
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- Center of the Political Spectrum
- Seperation of church and state, market economy and democracy |
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- Advocate Social Reforms
- Work to promote Private Enterprise
- Government aids the private enterprise to stimulate growth |
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| New type of political party that plays down ideology in favor of slogans or telegenic candidates |
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| Theory that young middle-class voters are likely to support environmentalism, feminism and other trendy issues on the political agenda |
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| Political party that stands agaisnt nuclear weapons and power and for the support of enviromental causes |
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| Principle that requires a prime minister and government to retain the support of a parliamentary majority |
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| Parties that have a similar political ideology and stay togehter for a parliamentary term |
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| A variety of close relationships between business leaders, politicans and civic servants |
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